Festbier
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- From:
- There Does Not Exist
- California, United States
- Style:
- Märzen
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.93 | pDev: 4.07%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 11, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 05, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Festbier is our fall lager brewed in the Märzen, or Oktoberfest style. This copper hued lager was built with a base of Pilsner malt and accented with a myriad of high dried malts + caramel malts. It was fermented cool and lagered for man moons to round out the flavors and bring the whole package together. This beer offers some light toffee sweetness with notes of burnt sugar and dried fig while still maintaining its dryness and crushability. Poured on our Lukr CZ side pull faucets for maximum “wet foam" enjoyment, on our patio with during crisp evenings. Prost!
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by BucannonXC5 from California
4.12/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.12/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Type: 16-oz. can
Reviewed as: Festbier / Wiesnbier
Glass: Pure Project .5L pilsner glass
Price: $3.99
From: Windmill Farms in San Diego (Del Cerro), Calif.
Purchased: Oct. 12, 2022
Consumed: Oct. 27, 2022
Misc.: Canned on Sept. 19, 2022
Went over to Windmill Farms from work and ended up once again spending way too much on beer. There website calls for “This years Festbier is a more modern take on the Märzen style (from our previous beers), that is much more akin to the beers poured by the liter, in the tents of München. Brewed with base of Barke Pilsner malt, with a sprinkling of a few lightly kilned specialty malts, it is golden in color, with a kiss of malt presence, and is filtered to brilliant clarify. Hopped exclusively with our best Hallertau Mittelfrüh for a low but perceived bitterness and the most noble aroma in all the land, friends. Prost!”
Poured a medium yellow clear color with six fingers of rocky white head. Could see lots of fast-moving bubbles coming up along the sides and bottom of the glass, seemingly picking up toward the top. World-class foggy-to-foamy lacing on the sides of the glass. Perfect foamy retention. (Sight - 4.75)
Smelled baked wheat bread, biscuit, toasted grain, bitter hay, grass, woody pine and hints of toffee. Just as good from the can. (Smell - 4.00)
Tasted even a little better than the nose. This is solid. In order got baked wheat bread, biscuit, toasted grain, hay, grass, woody pine and toffee. (Taste - 4.00)
Medium body. Creamy texture. Average carbonation. Clean finish. (Feel - 4.25)
This was a solid beer. Really glad I picked up a can. (Overall - 4.25)
4.12 | 92 | A-
Sep 11, 2025Reviewed as: Festbier / Wiesnbier
Glass: Pure Project .5L pilsner glass
Price: $3.99
From: Windmill Farms in San Diego (Del Cerro), Calif.
Purchased: Oct. 12, 2022
Consumed: Oct. 27, 2022
Misc.: Canned on Sept. 19, 2022
Went over to Windmill Farms from work and ended up once again spending way too much on beer. There website calls for “This years Festbier is a more modern take on the Märzen style (from our previous beers), that is much more akin to the beers poured by the liter, in the tents of München. Brewed with base of Barke Pilsner malt, with a sprinkling of a few lightly kilned specialty malts, it is golden in color, with a kiss of malt presence, and is filtered to brilliant clarify. Hopped exclusively with our best Hallertau Mittelfrüh for a low but perceived bitterness and the most noble aroma in all the land, friends. Prost!”
Poured a medium yellow clear color with six fingers of rocky white head. Could see lots of fast-moving bubbles coming up along the sides and bottom of the glass, seemingly picking up toward the top. World-class foggy-to-foamy lacing on the sides of the glass. Perfect foamy retention. (Sight - 4.75)
Smelled baked wheat bread, biscuit, toasted grain, bitter hay, grass, woody pine and hints of toffee. Just as good from the can. (Smell - 4.00)
Tasted even a little better than the nose. This is solid. In order got baked wheat bread, biscuit, toasted grain, hay, grass, woody pine and toffee. (Taste - 4.00)
Medium body. Creamy texture. Average carbonation. Clean finish. (Feel - 4.25)
This was a solid beer. Really glad I picked up a can. (Overall - 4.25)
4.12 | 92 | A-
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
3.91/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.91/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Clear coppery amber brew with plenty of foam in the St. Bernardus globe. Light body. Aromatic with grain and straw with a whiff of the hay barn. Warm and malty with a nice roasted finish. Slightly more resiny and bitter aftertaste than typical. I seem to always pick up Oktoberfest-style beers when I see one. They rarely disappoint. From the 16 oz can purchased at O'Shea's. Dated 9/15/22.
Jan 12, 2023
Reviewed by RaulMondesi from California
4/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Oh buddy. Yeah buddy. All kinds of buddy on this one. Nothing crazy like an AM acid trip, but it’s just pure and smooth like you wish you were on prom night. It’s just all balanced like McKayla Maroney in her prime.
I suggest that you get it.
Oct 15, 2021I suggest that you get it.
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